ESCAPE at the ICL-GNSS 2018 Conference

Today, June the 26th 2018, ESCAPE’s coordinator Jessica García Soriano from FICOSA, Spain, gave a keynote speech (here the link) about the use of GNSS in vehicles and the ESCAPE project at the International Conference on Localization and GNSS – ICL-GNSS. The 2018 edition of the ICL-GNSS is taking place in Guimaraes, in Portugal.

The audience was very receptive and it made several questions after the speech. The questions focused on the application of GNSS for autonomous driving and in particular on one specific point: the constraints coming from the stringent automotive industry requirements (costs, size and power consumption vs safety).

An extract of the hot topics addressed this year at the ICL-GNSS conference:

Reliable navigation and positioning are becoming imperative in more and more applications for safety-critical purposes, public services and consumer products. A robust localization solution, which will be available continuously, is needed regardless of the specific environment, i.e., outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone navigators and mobile devices. ICL-GNSS addresses the latest research on wireless and satellite-based positioning techniques to provide reliable and accurate position information with low latency. The emphasis is on the design of mass-market navigation receivers and related tools and methodologies.